566.03 Driver breaks all Windows 10 Acrylic/Transparency

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I don’t know which specific version of Nvidia driver broke this, but I previously I used early 2024 version and everything works perfectly. I thought it was just a problem with my PC, so I proceeded to upgrade it again (thinking my issue was fixed), only to realize the problem was the driver.

Here are some screenshots. All of those UIs should be acrylic (translucent with blur). Instead, you can see that both the taskbar & hidden icon tray are transparent with no blur. Meanwhile everything else (start menu & action center) are fully opaque (should be acrylic).

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I have Lenovo Legion 5 with AMD switchable graphic. But for debugging reason, I disabled the AMD and using an external display (so it’s guaranteed that my Nvidia is being used). In any case, using the AMD (and not external display) fixed this, so it’s Nvidia issue.

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Hello,

Welcome to the NVIDIA Developer forums. This community serves the developer ecosystem.

For consumer issues, please visit the GeForce forums.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/

There is also a Feedback function within GeForce Experience or the NVIDIA App beta to report such issues.

Thanks!

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Hello,

I exactly have the same issue with the same driver.

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From what ive tried. The 566 version breakes all aeros in windows 10 and some in win 11. But on version 565.90 it was fine. I tried the Old version and it works great. So downgrade if possible

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Can confirm, on a Legion 5 (82JU), with AMD switchable graphics (but it turned off), an RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, transparency breaks on reboot. Disabling and re-enabling the device in Device Manager seems to fix it temporarily, but will break again after a restart. Tried both game-ready and Studio drivers, none of which fixed it.

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v566.14 here with the latest version of the NVIDIA App and the same problem with Windows 10 transparency effects. Waiting for a fix.

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I downgraded to 565.90 and it fixed the issue; you might wanna try that yourself.

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Welcome everyone who joined the developer program to be able to post this.

Thank you for your input.

As a reminder, this community serves the developer ecosystem.

For consumer issues we have the GeForce forums. The issue described here can for example be found in this thread:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/551473/geforce-grd-56603-feedback-thread-released-102224/3480249/?comment=3480318

We know about it and it will be fixed in a future driver update.

Thanks!